bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) (09/23/89)
This is with Ultrix 3.1, UWS 2.1, X11R3, on a VAXstation II/GPX; the display is a vr290. A few hours after starting up the xcons (by putting the proper line in /etc/ttys and doing kill -HUP 1), the console-display's X server (Xqdsg) locks up. Not only is the server going south, but it takes the display head with it. It sends video gibberish, making a tightly-meshed lissajous pattern on the screen. Because of the severity of the mess, I thought at first that it was the vr290 that was bad. Then I remembered that I had just tried xcons, and I had been wondering why my predecessor as manager of these machines had not used it. I can fix it temporarily by rlogin from the second vr290 (it's a two-headed GPX) and kill -KILL on the Xqdsg and all other processes attached to ttyv0, including the xcons, but init starts up both the X server and xcons, and a couple of hours later it all crashes again. Removing the xcons line from /etc/ttys eliminates the problem (it hasn't crashed in days). But that's no solution. It won't do to have random warnings scribbled all over the console's screen, especially when running display-intensive CAD tools. I'd appreciate any help or insight. --Blair "Even a lollipop. :-)"